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Beginning in 2015, the program also applies a negative payment adjustment to EPs who do not satisfactorily report data on quality measures for covered professional services. This website serves as the primary and authoritative source for all publicly available information and CMS-supported educational and implementation support materials for PQRS.

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If you have questions or need assistance with PQRS reporting please contact the QualityNet Help Desk. The help desk is available Monday – Friday; 7:00 AM–7:00 PM CST:
Phone: 1-866-288-8912 TTY: 1-877-715-6222 Email: Qnetsupport@hcqis.org

PQRS Open Call for Measures

To suggest quality measures for potential inclusion in future rule-making years, visit theMeasures Management System Call for Measurespage. As the PQRS Call for Measures is conducted in an ongoing open format, measure suggestions may be submitted at any time. When submitting measures for consideration, please ensure that your submission is not duplicative of another existing or proposed measure. Measures submitted previously may only be resubmitted for consideration if the measure has undergone substantive changes.

Sign Up or Pre-Registration.

Individual EPs do not need to sign up or pre-register in order to participate in PQRS. However, to qualify for a PQRS incentive payment an EP must meet the criteria for satisfactory reporting specified by CMS for a particular reporting period. A revised List of Eligible Professionals who may participate in PQRS is available by clicking on this link.

Note: The PQRS program requirements and measure specifications for the current program year may be different from the PQRS program requirements and measure specifications for a prior year. EPs are responsible for ensuring that they are using the PQRS documents for the correct program year.

2014 PQRS

To participate in the 2014 PQRS, individual EPs may choose to report information on individual PQRS quality measures or measures groups using the following mechanisms:

Individual EPs who meet the criteria for satisfactory submission of PQRS quality measures data via one of the reporting mechanisms above for services furnished during a 2014 reporting period will qualify to earn a PQRS incentive payment equal to 0.5% of their total estimated Medicare Part B Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) allowed charges for covered professional services furnished during that same reporting period.

A group practice may also potentially qualify to earn PQRS incentive payments equal to 0.5% of the group practice's total estimated Medicare Part B PFS allowed charges for covered professional services furnished during a 2014 PQRS reporting period based on the group practice meeting the criteria for satisfactory reporting specified by CMS.

To participate in the 2014 PQRS, group practices may choose to report information on individual PQRS quality measures using the following mechanisms:

If reporting for PQRS through another CMS program (such as the Medicare Shared Savings Program, Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative, Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations), please check the program’s requirements for information on how to report quality data to earn a PQRS incentive and/or avoid the PQRS negative payment adjustment. Please note, although CMS has attempted to align or adopt similar reporting requirements across programs, eligible professionals should look to the respective quality program to ensure they satisfy the PQRS, EHR Incentive Program, Value-Based Payment Modifier (VBM), etc. requirements of each of these programs.